Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is considering a run for president, called capital punishment morally objectionable. Though California hasn’t executed anyone for 20 years, that represents about a quarter of death sentences nationwide.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California reduced every death sentence in the state to life in prison without parole, a sweeping move expected to face legal challenges.
Mr. Wong, one of the most high-profile members of a movement that was quashed in 2020, was accused of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, a national security offense.
Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong arriving at prison after a hearing for 47 opposition activists charged with violating the national security law in Hong Kong in 2021.
Judges took away the possibility of parole for an Australian woman, Erin Patterson, and rejected a bid to overturn her conviction over a deadly beef Wellington lunch.
A judge said that denying him the staple in prison restricted his cultural rights but ruled that keeping drug dogs focused and cells free of illicit home brew was more important.
The founder of the blood-testing start-up Theranos was sentenced to 11 years in prison for fraud and had been serving time at a minimum-security federal prison in Texas.
The Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted of fraud in 2022 and sentenced to 11 years behind bars, is expected to be transferred to a halfway house next August.
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